Vuvuzela Contest
For a while now the El Monte operation has held a Vuvuzela blowing contest every 4 years during the FIFA World Cup. It started 14 years ago after my daughter, […]
Category: Chairman’s Corner
Airline Posters
When visitors enter our corporate offices, they often ask about the airline travel posters, and I’m going to explain. My love for aviation was born in the late 1950s, aboard […]
Don’t Ask How That Was Done
I don’t remember the name of the movie, but it has had a lasting effect on my life. In the movie, two characters are watching a magic trick. At the end […]
What Could Be Going Wrong – Part 3
In my last two messages I’ve described an event that happened when I was just beginning my career. We’d received a large order for lab table tops from a hospital […]
What Could Be Going Wrong – Part 2
In my last message I mentioned a valuable lesson that I would explain in this message. We were having trouble with matching the color on a 990C laminate order. It […]
What Could Be Going Wrong – Part 1
When I began my career at The Gill Corporation my position was supervisor of Line #2. We had a huge (for us at that time) order for 990Cs. They used […]
Truck Day
I’ve been a baseball fan most of my life. When I was young and became interested in baseball there were no major league baseball teams in the Los Angeles area. […]
Boa Constrictor Story
When The Gill Corporation moved to its current location in El Monte, there was an industrial company on the 20 acres on the north edge of the property. The building […]
Air Canada Flight 797 – Part 2
In a previous article I described Air Canada’s flight 797 and the effect it had on our industry. With the mandating by the FAA of a new cargo liner with […]
Air Canada Flight 797 – Part 1
On 2 June 1983, Air Canada flight 797 left Dallas/Fort Worth airport bound for Toronto. As it approached Cincinnati, a fire was discovered in the rear lavatory and the plane […]